. (ii) Write about the Permanent Settlement mentioning its merits and demerits.
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Explanation:
1. The Permanent Settlement adversely affected the income of the company as the revenue was fixed quite on the low side due to lack of proper measurement. 2. It benefited only the landlords and the condition of the farmers could not be improved as much as was expected.
Answer:
Merits and demerits of permanent settlement:-
Merits-
(1) The Permanent settlement gave popularity and stability to the British Government and thus helped to make the province the healthiest and most flourishing in India.
(2) The Permanent settlement set free the ablest servants of the Company for judicial work. Formerly, they had to waste a lot of their time every year in offering the collection of revenue to the highest bidder ad realizing the same amount.
Demerits -
(1) The immediate effect of the permanent settlement on the zamindars was disastrous. Many of them could not realize the land revenue from their tenants and consequently could not pay the money to the Government in time. The result was that their lands were sold.
(1) The immediate effect of the permanent settlement on the zamindars was disastrous. Many of them could not realize the land revenue from their tenants and consequently could not pay the money to the Government in time. The result was that their lands were sold.(2) Contrary to the expectations, the landlords did not take much interest in the development of their lands. They became merely absentee landlords living in Calcutta or at the district towns on the income derived from the tenants. It has rightly been pointed out that although Cornwallis intended to create a class of English landlords in Bengal, what he actually created was a class of Irish landlords.